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A quorum system is a collection of subsets of nodes, called quorums, with the property that each pair of quorums have a non-empty intersection. Quorum systems are the key mathematical abstraction for ensuring consistency in fault-tolerant and highly available distributed computing. Critical for many applications since the early days of distributed computing, quorum systems have evolved from simple majorities of a set of processes to complex hierarchical collections of sets, tailored for general adversarial structures. The initial non-empty intersection property has been refined many times to account for, e.g., stronger (Byzantine) adversarial model, latency considerations or better availability. This monograph is an overview of the evolution and refinement of quorum systems, with emphasis on their role in two fundamental applications: distributed read/write storage and consensus. Table of Contents: Introduction / Preliminaries / Classical Quorum Systems / Classical Quorum-Based Emulations / Byzantine Quorum Systems / Latency-efficient Quorum Systems / Probabilistic Quorum Systems
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Marko Vukoli´c is an assistant professor in the Networking and Security Department at Eurécom, France. He received his engineering degree in Communication Systems from University of Belgrade, Serbia in 2001 and his doctor of science degree in Distributed Systems from EPFL, Switzerland in 2008. He was affiliated with IBM Research – Zurich where he spent time in the Storage Systems group as a post-doc from 2008–2010.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quorum Systems
Book Subtitle: With Applications to Storage and Consensus
Authors: Marko Vukolić
Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Distributed Computing Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02007-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0), eBColl Synthesis Collection 4
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-00879-5Published: 27 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-02007-0Published: 01 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2155-1626
Series E-ISSN: 2155-1634
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 130
Topics: Computer Science, general, Coding and Information Theory, Data Structures and Information Theory